With just a couple of months left before farmers in Punjab and Haryana start burning crop stubble, both the states have submitted an action plan and a status report to Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA) detailing how they plan to provide incentives and raise awareness to curb th problem.
NEW DELHI - Ms Arasmani Devi, 36, plucks out a needle from a used injection with her bare hands, before throwing its plastic barrel and plunger into a sack of potentially recyclable items. Her 40-year-old husband Akhilesh Paswan works next to her at a recycling yard in Noida, a suburb near Delhi.
Reversing policies aimed to eliminate single-use plastics will do us more harm than good On one of his usual walks collecting plastic trash in Chennai, B. Gowtham recently noticed a goat wearing a discarded face mask. “It’s sad,” he says, adding
In a sharp rebuttal to a full-page advertorial published in the daily “Business Standard” (July 29), more than 160 academics, activists and NGOs, many of them working in the environmental field, have said that the content the advertorial by the all-India pesticides and chemical fertilizer industry body, Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI), is “malafide as it seeks to promote harmful agricultural practices detrimental to public interest.”
Mansoor Khan and his wife Latifa Bibi have been collecting scraps of plastic and other items at an enormous landfill site on the outskirts of New Delhi for nearly 20 years.
CHENNAI: An online environmental survey, conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment, evoked tremendous response as it witnessed participation of over 47,000 students from 28 states with Delhi being on the top with 8,000 participants, said a press release issued by the CSE on Monday.
An online survey done by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) among 47,000 students showed that 55% of them did not use any form of renewable energy.
Installing a smog tower in the capital may take another ten months, with a fresh MoU signed by IIT-Bombay with the central government. The work will be carried out using expertise from University of Minnesota and IIT Delhi. At present, Delhi has only one smog tower – a 20-ft- tall device, which was installed at Lajpat Nagar in January by a local traders’ association.
The reason for the cycling increase vary from limited public transport options to a preference for contactless modes of travel to keep the Covid-19 infection at bay. Nearly two-and-a-half months after Delhi started relaxing the lockdown norms put in place to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, roads of the national capital have started seeing a surge in the number of cyclists, a study has found
BATHINDA: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on Wednesday organized an online meeting and consultation of key stakeholders on antibiotic use in the Indian dairy sector and to know how healthy is the milk, which people consume.
Residues remain largely untested in milk. We are concerned, says CSE director general Antibiotics are extensively misused in the dairy sector and its residues remain largely untested in milk, which is an integral part of Indian diets, particularly of children, noted a recently published survey report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Protocol says used disposable masks, gloves, aprons, head covers et al should be incinerated or given a burial — at least 100 feet deep. This is not happening.